This book offers a convenient and comprehensive guide to Islamic coinage, as well as Arabic coins by non-Muslims from Sicily to India and Indonesia. Topics discussed are the Arabic alphabet, purity marks, ornamentation, religious inscriptions, a list of poetic inscriptions used of various monarchs, regnal years, eras, and cycles. Also included are an exhaustive list of mint cities, with a list of characteristic epithets, as well as a table of the years of the Hejira. This work is ideal for numismatists and non-specialists alike.

This book offers a convenient and comprehensive guide to Islamic coinage, as well as Arabic coins by non-Muslims from Sicily to India and Indonesia. Topics discussed are the Arabic alphabet, purity marks, ornamentation, religious inscriptions, a list of poetic inscriptions used of various monarchs, regnal years, eras, and cycles. Also included are an exhaustive list of mint cities, with a list of characteristic epithets, as well as a table of the years of the Hejira. This work is ideal for numismatists and non-specialists alike.

Through literary, historical, archaeological, and engendered readings, this collection of essays presents a multidisciplinary analysis of rabbinic texts. Such a conversation between diverse scholars illuminates the hermeneutical issues generated by the contemporary study of the Talmud and Midrash.

A popularly-written study of the biblical roots of the Eastern Orthodox Church’s mystical understanding of the knowledge of God. This unique study brings together the best of contemporary exegesis with the tradition of Eastern Christianity and illustrates the biblical roots of the Eastern Church's understanding of grace as the energy of God. The book presents, in lay terms, the shape for an Orthodox biblical theology for the 21st century and will be of interest to all Christians for whom the Bible is divine revelation and for whom tradition continues to be creative.

The accepted standard of Christian poetry in an Islamic context is disclosed in this two-volume collection that contains vocalized Arabic poems, biographical introductions, and commentary. Volume one includes poets from before the Islamic period while volume two covers those during the Islamic period.

The accepted standard of Christian poetry in an Islamic context is disclosed in this two-volume collection that contains vocalized Arabic poems, biographical introductions, and commentary. Volume one includes poets from before the Islamic period while volume two covers those during the Islamic period.

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